She moved to Paris, where she attended the Sorbonne, taught school, and wrote articles for several American magazines.
She returned to the United States in 1887, teaching school in Evanston, Illinois and Newark, New Jersey.
In addition to her writing, she worked for the Committee on Maternal Health of the New York Academy of Medicine, researching for a book on birth control.
[7] A family member recalled that “men in dark suits” came to visit her in Little Compton, bringing writing assignments and asking for money.
[8] In 1940, at the age of 81, Strobell bought The Daily Worker along with two friends, also elderly women, to protect it from government attacks on the Communist Party.